amens

amens

1. plural of amen

amens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of amen

• Means, Mensa, Seman, manes, manse, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈmɛns]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aˈmɛns]
• Rhymes: -ɛns

amens

1. plural of amè

amens m

1. plural of amen

From ā- (prefix denoting absence) +‎ mēns (“mind, reason”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.mens/, [ˈäːmẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mens/, [ˈäːmens]

āmēns (genitive āmentis, comparative āmentior, superlative āmentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. frenzied, mad

   Synonyms: stultus, īnsipiēns, stupidus, brūtus, fatuus, dēmēns

   Antonyms: prūdēns, sapiēns, callidus, sollers

2. frantic, distracted
3. (Medieval Latin) insane, demented

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 110f.:

  quin etiam sic me dicunt aliena locutum,
  ut foret amenti nomen in ore tuum.

  Nay more, they say that when I talked strange things, 'twas so that your name was on my delirious lips.

• āmentia

• Italian: amente
• Spanish: amente

• dēmēns

• “amens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.